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Over 14,000 students of all colleges and other cities of Mysore state including Bangalore went on indefinite strike in protest against the rise in fees.

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LS MS The students of Maharani Girls College standing out, the gates of the college are closed.

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MS CU Several shots of the girl students idling away their time in the campus.

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LS The Maharani College for women.

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MS The gates of the college closed, striking girls forcing a girl student in an effort to debar her entry into the college.

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MS CU Several shots of the girls shouting slogan, a policeman guards.

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MS A policeman guarding a deserted college.

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LS MS Students leaders addressing the strikers.

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MS Two pan shots of the students shouting slogans.

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CU A poster calling upon the students to go o n strike.

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MS Armed Police guarding a college building.

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LS MS Shots of a deserted college.

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LS The state assembly of the Mysore State.

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LS MS Some more establishing shots of Bangalore, capital of Mysore state.

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OM PARKASH.

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Background: Over 14,000 students of all colleges and other cities of Mysore state including Bangalore went on indefinite strike in protest against the rise in fees.

The present increase in the salaries of Government servants prompted the Mysore Government to raise the tuition fees. The students resenting this uncalled for action on the part of the authorities went on strike. So successful is the strike that not even a single college remained open. The ladies College 'Maharani's College' took the lead and the girls walked out of the College in totto demonstrating outside the State Assembly offices.

The state Minister of Education has promised to defer the matter for the time being provided the students accept in principle the question of fees raise which the student's leaders rejected straight away.